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Now in a new fifth edition, The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007&BAD:-winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for History, Politics, and Philosophy&BAD:-examines both the constitutional precepts of the presidency and the social, economic, political, and international conditions that continue to shape it. Authors Sidney Milkis and Michael Nelson analyze the origins of the modern presidency and discuss the patterns of presidential conduct that developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and continue into the twenty-first. With careful consideration of every presidential administration, attention is focused more on how individual presidents shaped the institution, and less on the idiosyncrasies of their personalities. Unlike other texts on the presidency that divide executive politics into discrete topical chapters, The American Presidency integrates all aspects of the presidency into a dynamic whole and examines the variation of presidential relationships and roles from administration to administration. Students gain both an understanding of the office as it really exists and a solid historical foundation from which to better appreciate its evolution.Thoroughly updated, the fifth edition provides complete coverage of the George W. Bush administration, up to and including the 2004 and 2006 elections. The authors meticulously take into account new research on the presidency, while continuing to refine the writing and analysis of what has become a classic in the field.

Preface	p. xi
The Constitutional Convention	p. 1
Antecedents	p. 2
The Constitutional Convention	p. 8
Creating the Presidency	p. 26
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview	p. 26
Number of the Executive	p. 29
Selection and Succession	p. 31
Term of Office	p. 34
Removal	p. 35
Institutio... MOREnal Separation from Congress	p. 38
Enumerated Powers	p. 40
The Vice Presidency	p. 54
Ratifying the Constitution	p. 57
Implementing the Constitutional Presidency: George Washington and John Adams	p. 68
The Election of George Washington	p. 68
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy	p. 71
Forming the Executive Branch	p. 73
Presidential "Supremacy" and the Conduct of the Executive Branch	p. 75
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict	p. 78
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796	p. 84
The 1796 Election	p. 87
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams	p. 88
The Alien and Sedition Acts	p. 91
The Triumph of Jeffersonianism	p. 97
The "Revolution" of 1800	p. 98
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary	p. 101
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power	p. 102
The Limits of "Popular" Leadership	p. 106
The Twelfth Amendment	p. 107
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy	p. 108
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives	p. 109
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams	p. 112
The Age of Jackson	p. 121
Jacksonian Democracy	p. 122
The Rise of the Party Convention	p. 125
Jackson's Struggle with Congress	p. 125
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto	p. 127
The Decline of the Cabinet	p. 129
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency	p. 130
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837	p. 133
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained	p. 134
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession	p. 137
The Presidency of James K. Polk	p. 140
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency	p. 143
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln	p. 151
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy	p. 153
The Election of 1860	p. 155
Lincoln and Secession	p. 157
Lincoln's Wartime Measures	p. 158
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 163
The Election of 1864	p. 165
Lincoln's Legacy	p. 168
The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley	p. 173
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority	p. 174
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	p. 178
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power	p. 180
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power	p. 185
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency	p. 195
Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft	p. 208
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power	p. 210
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft	p. 226
Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership	p. 237
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership	p. 239
Wilson and Party Reform	p. 241
The Art of Popular Leadership	p. 242
Wilson's Relations with Congress	p. 243
Wilson as World Leader	p. 247
The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism	p. 258
The Harding Era	p. 260
The "Silent" Politics of Calvin Coolidge	p. 267
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression	p. 271
The Twentieth Amendment	p. 275
The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower	p. 280
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency	p. 281
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower	p. 298
Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter	p. 323
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the "Personal Presidency"	p. 324
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government	p. 331
The Twenty-fifth Amendment	p. 337
The Presidency of Richard Nixon	p. 340
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era	p. 352
A President Named Jimmy	p. 355
A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush	p. 366
The Reagan Revolution	p. 366
Reagan's Legacy and the Accession of George Bush	p. 379
The Bush Presidency	p. 386
Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency	p. 398
The Election of 1992	p. 399
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency	p. 401
The 1994 Election and the Restoration of Divided Government	p. 406
The Comeback President	p. 408
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the "Third Way"	p. 413
George W. Bush and Beyond	p. 423
The 2000 Election	p. 424
Bush v. Gore	p. 426
The Early Days of the Bush Presidency	p. 428
September 11 and the War on Terrorism	p. 431
An Expanded Presidency	p. 433
Bush and the Republican Party	p. 437
The Modern Presidency in the Twenty-first Century	p. 441
The Vice Presidency	p. 451
The Founding Period	p. 452
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century	p. 455
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman	p. 458
The Modern Vice Presidency	p. 461
Conclusion	p. 474
Appendix	p. 479
Constitution of the United States	p. 481
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents	p. 500
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2004	p. 503
Index	p. 513
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